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The chief executive officer of the Ghana Export Promotion Authority, Gifty Klenam has launched the national cashew mass spraying exercise in the Wenchi municipality of the Brong Ahafo region to increase production. The cashew mass spraying exercise, which is being piloted, will cover most cashew growing areas in the Brong Ahafo region and extended to other parts of the country by 2020. Records show that about 85 per cent of the cashew growing farmers in Ghana are located in the Brong Ahafo region, contributing about 197 million US dollars in revenue in 2016. The free mass spraying exercise, targeting over…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to “fix” Facebook, in what he described as his personal challenge for 2018. In a post on his page on the social network, he said it was making too many errors enforcing policies and preventing misuse of its tools. Mr Zuckerberg has famously set himself challenges every year since 2009. Facebook launched in 2004. Social media firms have come under fire for allowing so-called fake news ahead of US and other elections to spread. Facebook in particular has been criticised for allowing Russia-linked political ads in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential vote. Mr…

Employees join companies but leave managers. A Gallup poll of more 1 million employed U.S. workers concluded that the No. 1 reason people quit their jobs is a bad boss or immediate supervisor. 75% of workers who voluntarily left their jobs did so because of their bosses and not the position itself. In spite of how good a job may be, people will quit if the reporting relationship is not healthy. “People leave managers not companies…in the end, turnover is mostly a manager issue.” Here are the four types of bad bosses that make employees want to quit companies: 1)…

Apple has confirmed all its Mac systems and iOS devices are affected by two recently disclosed processor flaws called Spectre and Meltdown. In an announcement on Thursday, Apple (AAPL) said it has released mitigations to defend against Meltdown in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2. It will release mitigations in Safari to defend against the Spectre bug “in the coming days,” the release said. “There are no known exploits impacting customers at this time,” Apple said, echoing what other companies and security researchers have said. Apple Watch isn’t impacted by the Meltdown flaw. Researchers announced the two flaws affecting virtually all computer processors on Wednesday. Here’s…

The National Chairman of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Professor Edmund Delle, has described the decision by President Akufo-Addo to involve leaders of the various political parties in certain policy decisions as “quality leadership”. Prof Delle said it is a good thing to bring all the good people of Ghana onboard to ensure the development of the nation. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo met with leaders of the various political parties in the country on Thursday to seek their views on some governance-enhancing measures his administration intends to take. The political parties represented by their Chairpersons and General Secretaries included the largest…

Donald Trump says a book containing damaging allegations about his administration is “full of lies”. The book cites former top aide Steve Bannon as describing a meeting with a group of Russians at which Mr Trump’s son was present as “treasonous”. It also portrays Mr Trump as being surprised by winning the presidency. Mr Trump’s lawyers had tried to block publication of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff, which has now gone on sale early. What’s in the book? Mr Wolff’s book makes many claims, including that: The Trump team was shocked and horrified by…

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) says it can confirm a four percent increase in fuel prices at most of the filling stations. The claim contradicts announcement by the National Petroleum Authority that prices of LPG and petrol at the pumps would remain unchanged from January 1, 2018. According to the NPA, aside the drop in crude prices at the world market, as well as stability in the exchange rate, other interventions helped in stabilising the prices. But the Executive Secretary of COPEC, Ghana, Duncan Amoah insists,”we can confirm that fuel prices across some pumps have been adjusted by as much…

The Vice President, Alhaji Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has confirmed the release of over 14 million cedis  by the Finance Ministry to clear outstanding arrears owed teachers from 2013 to 2016. Teachers recently threatened a nationwide strike if their arrears were not settled by the government as soon as possible. However, speaking at the opening ceremony of the 5th Quadrennial (52nd) national delegates conference of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) at the University of Cape Coast on Thursday, Dr. Bawumia announced the “goodnews” to them. “The Minister of Finance released the monies for those allowances yesterday,” he said to…

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) has been ordered to suspend, indefinitely, introduction of the compulsory first aid kit. Drivers, from January 2018, were charged GHc108 for the mandatory kit as part of the ongoing annual Vehicle Registration and Licensing Regime being implemented by the Authority. The Governing Board of DVLA which gave the directive for its suspension acknowledged that the mandatory first aid kit has attracted “a siege of public outcry”. It also took notice of the “concern about the related pricing attendant therewith”. The Governing Board of the DVLA, in a press statement signed by its Board…

  The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Thursday, 4th January, 2018, met with the leaders of the various political parties in the country to seek their views on some governance-enhancing measures his administration intends to take.  The political parties represented by their Chairpersons and General Secretaries, were drawn from the New Patriotic Party (NPP), National Democratic Congress (NDC), Progressive Peoples’ Party (PPP), Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Peoples National Convention (PNC), and the National Democratic Party (NDP). The rest were Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), United Peoples Party (UPP), All Peoples Congress (APC), Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP), United Front…